Improvement in combined shear and bolt-cutter



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GEORGE A. HOWE, or NILEs, MICHIGAN.

. IMPROVEM ENT IN COMBINED SHEAR AND BOLT-CUTTER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 122,466, dated January2, 1872; antedated December 21, 1871.

SPECIFICATION. the link e. K serves to secure the instrument I, GEORGEA. HOWE, of Niles, in the county to the bench. The bolt-cutter Aconsists of of Berrien and State of Michigan, have inventholes cutthrough d B and g B, around or near ed an Improved Tool for ShearingMetal and the fulcruln A of the shears. Cutting Rods, of which thefollowing is a specication y y Chmn. My invention relates to aninstrument with I claim as my inventionwhich very thick sheet metals andbolts can The improved tool herein described for shearbeeasly cut. l fing metal and cutting rods, substantially as In the accompanyingdrawing, B represents above described. the shears; A, the bolt-cutter;and C f, the GEORGE A. HOWE. handle, to Whichfpower is applied. The han-Witnesses: dle Gf is secured to one arm, g, of theshears, DAVID BACON,

at L, and connected with the other arm, d, by 'JOHN KING. (119)

